"I’m going to get more excited that day than when I had sex for the first time.”

He added: “When they brought me into the game they thought I was a saint. But I’m a bloody devil. You will find out in the next 12 months how bad I am.”

No one was safe, including RFL chief ­executive Nigel Wood, who brought the millionaire into the sport a year ago.

“The highest paid of my players is only earning a fraction of what people in the RFL are earning,” he said.

“How can they tell us to only spend £1.8million? They don’t put a cap on what they’re getting paid.”

Next in line was the Sky deal – a reported £200m over five years from 2017. “You don’t marry the first girl you meet,” said Koukash. “You don’t commit until you’re sure there’s no one better.

“I’ve nothing against Sky, but there are other players around. Have we talked to them, did we have a tendering process? No.”

He claimed the First Utility tie up will generate only about £40,000 for each top-flight club this year, then rounded on ­McNamara, saying of England’s failed World Cup campaign: “We finished third in a three horse race.”